Intemperance Among Alaska Natives
A DARK picture of intemperance among the natives is drawn by Rev. R. W. Hill, who has recently been to Alaska. "The Indians will give away wife and children," he says, "to obtain liquor, and their carousals are so fierce and reckless that murders and suicides are frequent results." He also believes that unless the progress of ruin is stayed, the end of the Alaska Indians is not far off. Who can remain indifferent in learning such facts, and in watching with these the fearful work going on over the whole world, as the outgrowth of this one deadly business? Our whole being cries out, What shall we call thee, thou enemy of mankind? The great master poet of human nature answers, "Let us call thee—devil!"—Sel.